Cult Car - The Ford Capri DVD

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...This DVD covers the first series of The Sweeney, the great 1970's cops and robbers show where the Flying Squad's Inspector Jack Regan (the late John Thaw) and his Sergeant George Carter (Denis Waterman) spend their days chasing blaggers with shooters in souped up Granadas and Capris,shaking down a grass here and there and calling in on robber's dogs for leads. Alright not everyone comes from Laaaaandon so here's a quick translation: The Sweeney, short for the rhyming slang for Sweeney Todd (Flying Squad) Blagger: armed robber of banks and building societies and such like - usually with broken nose and pyschopathic too. Shooter - a gun, carried by blaggers on a job Granada and Capri - types of Ford motor cars popular in the 1970's Grass - dishonest person who tells tales on his / her compatriots in exchange for a lighter... Read review

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Advantages: A great great film
Disadvantages: A little slow, and dated too.

...– Can you dig it? This movie is a bit of a cult classic, whatever that means. It probably means that loads of nerds who have never gone out and have eyes like those fish you get in the mid-Atlantic trench love it, and spend their time discussing the minutae of the film on sad chat rooms. Hold up – that’s me isn’t it?! Oh well…. ….Cult films are always hit and miss. That’s why they’re cult movies. Perhaps its like with anchovies, Marmite, olives, English mustard, whiskey and the Ford Capri. All of these inspire feelings of disgust in the eyes of many, and evoke pure adulation in the hearts of others. Quite simply they are the strongest examples of their particular taste or style. The Capri is the ultimate chav car, English mustard the ultimate hot mustard. The anchovie sure is fishy etc etc... Read review

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...When Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings adaptation comes out later this year, no doubt his early work is going to be sought out as well. For those who come across this one they are in for a bit of a surprise. It was filmed over the space of four years at the weekend and stars Jackson and his mates basically, and cost somewhere between $200,000 - $300,000 to make over this period. The Lord Of The Rings will be a great family movie...Bad Taste, is exactly what the title suggests, and its damn hilarious too. In a sick way. The general plot is...well there is no plot. Ok, what little plot there is is that a group of aliens have come to Earth looking for the latest taste sensation. They find it in cuts of human meat and decimate an entire New Zealand town in the hunt for it. Four soldiers in a Ford Capri get rather miffed... Read review

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